Concepts Flashcards
1
Q
Terror
A
Fear from uncertainty
2
Q
Horror
A
Physical shock
3
Q
‘Abject’
A
Feminist critic Kristeva
The in-between that creates horror e.g corpse and wounds
4
Q
Sublime
A
Overwhelmed
5
Q
Sublime critic
A
Blair ‘expansion of the mind’
6
Q
The uncanny
A
In Freudian terms = foreign or strange but familiar
7
Q
Taboos
A
Crimes and broken rules
8
Q
Otherness
A
Different and threatening
9
Q
Obscurity
A
Things not seen or fully understood
10
Q
The revenant
A
Something that comes back from the past
11
Q
Doppleganger
A
Alter ego/ mirror image e.g. Dr jekyll and mr hyde
12
Q
The liminal
A
Being on a boundary
